Reading's food festival will welcome a new artisan market this year – and it will run every Friday throughout the summer too, starting today.

Eat Reading Live has teamed up with Your Event Organisers to bring some mouthwatering local produce and street food from chutneys, cheeses and cakes to artisan breads, jams, pies and global food on the go.

And when the festival, now in its fifth year and which takes place on Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7, from 10am to 6pm, is over, the market will run every Friday in Town Hall Square and Market Place until the end of summer.

Eat Reading Live co-ordinator Jo Keen said: “Eat Reading is the annual celebration of everything great about food in Reading. Many of our great restaurants will be showcasing their signature dishes for everyone to try during Eat Reading Live. We will be launching the town centre’s new weekly artisan food market and there will be food offers and events throughout the month.”

There will be plenty of foodie offers and restaurant vouchers available throughout June. From special discounts in your favourite restaurants to one-off food events, Reading will be a foodies’ paradise throughout the month.

The two-day outdoor celebration in the town centre attracts around 30,000 people each year. As well as stalls and tasting plates from local eateries it includes live cookery demos from some of the best chefs in the area, food sampling, and cocktail flaring and mixology from some of the best bars in town.

In Broad Street West will be Café West, a relaxing pop-up street café where visitors can enjoy a coffee before wandering down to Eat Street in Broad Street East to catch one of the cookery demos on the stage.

Eat Street is also where a series of stands will serve up a feast of foodie treats from restaurants, bars and cafes. Reading favourites such as Malmaison, Carluccio’s, Royal Tandoori, Mission Burrito and Ask Italian will be taking stalls or doing cooking demos in Broad Street.

Entry to Eat Reading Live, supported by the Reading Post and getreading, is free.

Details of what’s on during June, including special offers, promotions and discounts will be available through www.rguide.co.uk.

If you would like to rent a pitch in any of the areas above or you have a food offer or you would like to have a stall in the artisan market, please contact jo@livingreading.co.uk or call (0118) 900 1624.